People tend to prefer the letters that appear in their names—particularly their initials—and this preference is called the “name-letter effect.†This may not be all that surprising, given how often we write and read the letters in our names; where the name-letter effect gets interesting, however, is how this shows up subconsciously in the strangest places. Controversial studies have suggested that there appear to be significant correlations between the letters in peoples’ names and certain life choices they make and successes (or failures) they experience.
For instance, a series of studies done at SUNY Buffalo found that people are more likely to live in cities and/or states with names that resemble their own, find jobs and careers that linguistically resemble their names, and perhaps even find mates that fit the same criteria. It’s also possible that the name-letter effect can have negative effects; Two professors, one from UC San Diego and the other from Yale, conducted studies that examined, among other things, whether baseball players with a first or last name that starts with K (the statistical symbol for a strikeout) were more likely to strike out than their peers. The report claims that “We found that our own-name liking sabotages success for people whose initials match negative performance labels.â€
It should be noted that these studies are considered by many to be of dubious (at best) legitimacy and that the results may in fact be due to statistical artifacts (errors). --
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